Faculty associations ask federal candidates to protect public institutions from private-sector restructuring
Thursday, September 16th, 2021
This federal election is an opportunity to commit to our cherished public institutions that have been created for the common good, including universities, and to ensure that they are protected from proceedings designed for private sector corporations under the BIA and CCAA acts. It is the responsibility of federal and provincial governments to ensure the health and sustainability of public institutions through appropriate instruments and regulations for the public sector.
Tags: ideology, jurisdiction, privatization, rights
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How to repair long-term care in Canada
Wednesday, September 15th, 2021
… the earliest victims of the pandemic were residents of LTC, our most fragile and vulnerable elders. Surely one key lesson from the pandemic is the urgent task to improve LTC so residents can live, and die, with dignity… [Charitable] foundation funding is best directed at supporting knowledge and advocacy rather than subsidizing the operation of LTC homes, a government responsibility… support for research and advocacy would be a more effective avenue for foundations to support… [or] “venture philanthropy” – specifically to demonstrate and evaluate new models of LTC care.
Tags: Health, housing, philanthropy, Seniors, standard of living
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Worried about your charity? Why WE Charity’s practice is atypical
Monday, August 30th, 2021
The WE controversy… offers a number of lessons. There is some urgency to update the regulations and oversight of charities that conduct business activities, particularly those using social enterprise arms rather than doing this work within the charity… Finally, it warns charities to be cautious where their conduct may trigger conflict-of-interest legislation or bring to light their practices under lobbying legislation. Being ethical is a broader concept than being legal…
Tags: globalization, ideology, multiculturalism, participation, philanthropy, youth
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How affordable is a university education in your province?
Tuesday, September 11th, 2012
September 11, 2012
A new report… tracks the affordability of university education across Canadian provinces. The study looks at trends in tuition and compulsory fees in Canada since 1990, projects fees for each province for the next four years, and examines the impact on affordability for median- and low-income families using a Cost of Learning Index.
Tags: budget, ideology, participation, standard of living, youth
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How Corporations Behave
Monday, September 3rd, 2012
September 1, 2012
Boards of directors, outside corporate law and accounting firms, giant ratings agencies, state and federal banking regulators, and legislative and oversight committees all failed to detect or prevent abuses that led to trillion-dollar losses in pensions, millions of unemployed workers and taxpayer-funded bailouts. Why? Because they were “paid” to look the other way, through lucrative fees, campaign contributions or future employment opportunities. Individual and institutional shareholders didn’t restrain the corporate bosses because over the decades corporate managers have rendered shareholders powerless.
Tags: economy, globalization, ideology, privatization, rights
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Mental health nurse improving emerg outcomes
Sunday, August 26th, 2012
13 August 2012
Results of the pilot project include 31 cases where care in the community was organized thus avoiding hospital admission, 87 cases in which medication management issues were identified and corrected, and 68 cases where aggressive behaviour in the emergency department was reduced or eliminated. The presence of the liaison nurse also led to the reduction of the average length of stay in the emergency department for mental health care patients… the liaison nurse role has also helped shorten the inpatient length of stay
Tags: budget, disabilities, mental Health, standard of living
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‘Wealth equals health,’ Canadian doctors say
Saturday, August 25th, 2012
13 August 2012
Canadians earning less than $30,000 a year and have less than a high school education were more likely to describe their health as fair or poor, 16 per cent, compared with those earning $60,000 or more, six per cent, and those with a university degree or higher, seven per cent… 45 per cent, said there is too much to know about healthy eating… The same was true for physical activity levels and income… More than one in five Canadians… said they’d delayed or cancelled a dentist appointment because of financial concerns.
Tags: economy, Health, poverty, standard of living
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Canada: How’s Life?
Sunday, June 24th, 2012
June 2012
Voter turnout, a measure of public trust in government and of citizens’ participation in the political process, was 60% during recent elections; this figure is lower than the OECD average of 73%. Social and economic status also affect voting rates; voter turnout for the top 20% of the population is 62% and for the bottom 20% it is 56%, in line with the OECD average gap of 7%… In general; Canadians are more satisfied with their lives than the OECD average, with 80% of people saying they have more positive experiences in an average day… than negative ones
Tags: Health, housing, participation, standard of living
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With PSE funding, Ontario treads water…at the bottom of the ocean
Friday, June 15th, 2012
June 14, 2012
For 2010-11, per student funding was 34 per cent lower than in the rest of Canada, the same gap as 2009-10. Ontario remains dead last in terms of public operating funding per student… The latest provincial budget promises to maintain support for enrolment increases through a separate funding envelope, even as it calls for funding reductions in other areas. But without increases to base operating funding, the net effect – especially after adjusting for inflation – will be to reduce the level of per student funding further.
Tags: budget, standard of living, youth
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On student-to-faculty rations, Ontario goes from worst to even worse
Friday, April 27th, 2012
April 26, 2012
Since the mid-1990s, Ontario has had the worst student-to-faculty ratio in Canada. While the number of students per full-time faculty member in other provinces hovered around 20-1, the Ontario ratio rose from 22-1 in the fall of 2000 to 27-1 by 2005-06 as the “double cohort” entered the university system… Even if universities hired as many full-time faculty as they planned in their Multi-Year Accountability Agreements (and the evidence to date suggests they have not), the ratio is now approaching 28 students for each full-time faculty member… to preserve the quality of higher education in Ontario, we need to hire new full-time faculty – and we need to start doing it now.
Tags: budget, ideology, standard of living, youth
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